CES2009 ARM Cortex-A8 processor-based Netbook from Freescale and Pegatron

[Givarius]

Can you tell us when these ARM netbooks are available on the market?

[Charbax]

@Givarius Genesi sells them now with i.MX51 for $199, even cheaper i.MX53 ones are coming next month

[ipodtouchnight]

Doesn't iPhone 4 run this A8

[Revovleit]

@ipodtouchnight yes :)

[espertempo]

we want products on the street, I don't want to hear any more about the technology.

Where are those 200$ netbooks / smartbooks?

[kaltsinho]

when pegatron will start sale arm powered stuff????

[videoreborn]

It's now used on iPhone 3GS

[morq13]

nope, in the iPhone 3GS is also a Cortex A8, but its an ather SoC, the iPhone got less power.

[skrivitor]

In the wikipedia article about Adobe Flash, they say Adobe is planning to release an ARM optimized version of Flash Player.

[tipoomaster]

ARM based netbooks could be epic...ARM processors would significantly cut the costs of the machine, and lower the power draw. Imagine a day when you can pick up a netbook for 100 bucks! I sure wouldnt mind that, even if they performed worse than the Atom or the Nano.

The only downside is that ARM=/=x86, so you cant run most normal programs.

[gnomeuser]

Bah, it can't run Windows XP and Adobe' implementation of Flash. That's about it, your standard Netbook with a special interface ala Xandros' work for the EeePC (or in this example Ubuntu) will run perfectly fine. It would be fine for what 90% of netbook users would need, just don't market it as a "cheap notebook" it is a completely different set of uses. Personally I cannot wait to sell my soul to get a few of these to play with.

[RABBIDGamfan]

Not being able to run WIndows XP may not be much of a problem, but trying to play current Flash content might be, as Gnash and SWFDec do not support any features of the new Flash 10, and Flash 8 and 9 support is limited.

[GegoXaren]

that is the problem with non-free software

[tipoomaster]

The Tegra 2 (with dual A9's) can play HD flash.